Fast Android emulator
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| BlueStacks is a customized android emulator. It provides a better testing environment in terms of performance. It is in beta and has some bugs but it is still better than the one that comes with the Android SDK. http://bluestacks.com/ |
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| BlueStacks has been mentioned before. Wierd timing, but this appeared today: http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2012/04/faster-emulator-with-better-hardware.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/hsDu+%28Android+Developers+Blog%29 |
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| looks good, how would you get this to run automatically on every monkey build? |
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| there is also this for DosBox: http://www.andreybutov.com/2011/10/14/how-to-set-up-a-faster-android-emulator not really as good but an option. |
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| @Beaker: I know I read it today and was about to post it. Haven't tried it yet though. Slenkar, All you have to do is making sure adb is up and running After you run blue stack, open a command prompt and type: adb devices This should start adb if it is not running and blue stack should show up in the list of devices as an emulator. This is it. @Jesse: This is really fast but virtual machines takes lots of the computer resources(speed/memory) and the setup process is a pain. |
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| @Aman: What is 'adb'? |
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| It's a part of Android SDK. It handles connections between your computer and Android devices including emulators. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html |
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| @Jesse: This is really fast but virtual machines takes lots of the computer resources(speed/memory) and the setup process is a pain. Yea, thats why I said "Not really as good but an option". I tried it on my Macbook. The instructions are pretty straight forward. I was able to get it running in a few minutes. I haven't gave it much use so it might be a bit hard to work with. |
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